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New comment by cjjuice in "Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI"

cjjuice — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:19:03 +0000

I made a completely free 100% on device translation app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arda-translate/id6778970560 and hard to image a world where TTS and STT will not be done locally in the future

New comment by cjjuice in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

cjjuice — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:39:53 +0000

As a fellow ADHD.. increase your threads... while the agent is working on one thing, prompt another thread to work on another project. Keep a bunch of them in the air at one time. But make sure you are still interested in what you are building. If you don't think what you are building is important coding agent or not it's going to be very hard to do that thing.

New comment by cjjuice in "Show HN: Arda Translate, free private on-device (iOS) translation"

cjjuice — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:11:03 +0000

Right now I am just restricting it to devices with 8GB RAM. I plan to start testing older phones soon to see if I can get it running well on them. MoE with low active params is interesting. I wonder if there is smaller models based on specific pairs (En/Es, ect.)

Show HN: Arda Translate, free private on-device (iOS) translation

cjjuice — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:49:50 +0000

Hi C.J. here, I made a free app that does on device translation using Gemma Translate 4B AI model repackaged for iOS. This allows for after model download, private offline translation locally on your iOS device.

I made this app after trying to talk to my neighbor and service not being great at the bus stop where I drop off my daughter. I have tried to make the app UX easy to use and I really like the default view where the translations appear flipped on each side so you can hold the phone in the middle and each person has a side of the phone.

Hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808848

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New comment by cjjuice in "Acceptance of evolution by high school students: Is religion the key factor?"

cjjuice — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 19:24:29 +0000

Don't forget George Lemaitre, Catholic priest and formulator of the Big Bang Theory.

New comment by cjjuice in "Acceptance of evolution by high school students: Is religion the key factor?"

cjjuice — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 19:21:19 +0000

Is this for real? I have never heard of a catholic school teaching fundamentalism like this. Not saying it doesn't exist, but would have to be pretty fridge.

New comment by cjjuice in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

cjjuice — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:43:05 +0000

with socks?!

New comment by cjjuice in "Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account"

cjjuice — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:37:23 +0000

Well argued point. However, I would counter that we should not do evil in the pursuit of good.

Let's find another way that does not limit free speech. It will be a harder solution to find sure, but the converse is too dangerous and nuanced to be implemented. It also gives social media companies undue influence over our democracy.

New comment by cjjuice in "Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account"

cjjuice — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:07:07 +0000

If it is truly foreign influence, then it is on the FBI/DoJ to do the investigation and publicly declare it as such and order it to be taken down.

Social Media companies are not equipped to make that distinction and should not do so.

New comment by cjjuice in "Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account"

cjjuice — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:56:23 +0000

It should not be the job of the social media companies to be judge and jury for truth. Let the people decide for themselves what is true and false.

Basically the social media company argument is... we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor. That to me is an extremely damning view of the common person.

But then, everywhere on the platform.. "make a plan to vote". So you trust people to vote but don't trust them with the unfiltered information so they can inform themselves without outside intervention?

New comment by cjjuice in "Captcha.nsa.gov"

cjjuice — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:12:36 +0000

A potential vector would be to potentially load images/content through google image/AMP and make it appear as legitimate NSA content

New comment by cjjuice in "Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality"

cjjuice — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 15:17:54 +0000

Why when we talk about inequality we never talk about the tide of economic progress that capitalism produces.

If the rich get richer but the middle class has a better quality of life than what the rich had 200 years ago, is strict inequality still the only thing that matters?

New comment by cjjuice in "People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”"

cjjuice — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:14:10 +0000

Reminds me of Plato's theory of forms

New comment by cjjuice in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display"

cjjuice — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:11:55 +0000

I am really impressed with 18F and how the federal government has really stepped up their game on the digital/open source front.

It does make me wonder though if the usage rights of these projects should be restricted to use by US taxpayers though since that is who is ultimately paying for this work.

New comment by cjjuice in "$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit"

cjjuice — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 18:35:43 +0000

More immediate access to information leads to more direct democratic pressure on legislators. This is not necessarily a good thing.

New comment by cjjuice in "Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles"

cjjuice — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:59:34 +0000

Is there any type of encryption between the car and the key? Or are the signals always constant?

Could you just record the relay signal and play it back whenever, essentially replicating the key?

New comment by cjjuice in "The Antique Cannabis Book"

cjjuice — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:01:48 +0000

Yeah, maybe I phrased my comment wrong. By "modern" I mean "contemporary" meaning the loaded words are only effective on people contemporary to the speaker who grasp the hidden context behind the words.

New comment by cjjuice in "The Antique Cannabis Book"

cjjuice — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:21:31 +0000

unrelated side note... I think this is a great example of how much we use loaded language in rhetoric.

you turned "cannabis" to "plant matter" and "beat your wife with a stick no bigger than your thumb" to "domestic violence".

It's also amazing that this rhetorical technique is only useful to a modern audience that has been conditioned to associate certain feelings to the words.

Not disagreeing with your point, just thought it was interesting.

New comment by cjjuice in "The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism"

cjjuice — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:14:53 +0000

Can someone explain to me why this was flagged?

New comment by cjjuice in "It's Never Too Late to Learn Guitar"

cjjuice — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:12:03 +0000

As someone who learned guitar recently in my late 20s, I can say don't overlook basic theory and the value of soloing/coming up with melodies.

For me, the creation aspect helped keep me interested. A lot of the beauty of programming is creating new stuff. If that's what you love about programming, try to create your own music as soon as possible.

You may want to start on ukulele first (4 strings/requires less pressure) to get the concepts down and start creating your own music faster.